How to Sleep Better with Tech Tweaks

Your sleep habits can have a lasting effect on your overall health. Simply tweaking a few of your tech device habits can help upgrade your sleep hygiene for a better night’s rest.

Why am I so tired?

Do you wake up happy to face the day or exhausted before you even get started? According to the CDC, one in three US adults get less than the recommended amount of sleep!1

Quick question: how much sleep do you really get most nights?

According to the experts, you need seven hours or more every night.2 How do you compare?

Why does sleep matter so much for health and wellbeing?

So you can be more productive:From a productivity perspective, missing out on your zzz’s is not good.3 Ariana Huffington, who used to routinely work crazy hours but is now leading the sleep revolution, says, “The irony is that a lot of people forego sleep in the name of productivity. But in fact our productivity is reduced substantially when we’re sleep deprived.”

So you’re not walking around “drunk”:
Not getting enough sleep can impair your abilities similar to being drunk!4 “We would never say, 'This person is a great worker! He's drunk all the time!' yet we continue to celebrate people who sacrifice sleep for work,” says Charles Czeisler, a Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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